Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced on Friday that the video-sharing app TikTok improperly sent the data of European users to China. It issued a fine of 530 million euros, or around 600 million dollars.



The data watchdog in the European Union said the app violated the bloc's privacy rules. It noted that China's national intelligence law requires all companies and citizens to hand over data and said TikTok was not transparent to users about where their personal info was sent. It added that the platform had insufficient measures to ask them for permission.



The commission is giving TikTok six months to meet the EU's privacy benchmark, and failing to do so will result in a suspension of all data transfers to China.



However, TikTok disagrees with the decision and plans an appeal. It says China has never requested data for European users and that it never provided the info.